Health Insurance

Why is Health Care for America Now Giving Up on Real Reform?

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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Rose Ann DeMoro

In search of a supposedly politically viable plan, the coalition has surrendered in advance on the only overhaul that will actually cure the disease: a single-payer, mproved Medicare for all reform.

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Why Not Single Payer? Part 6: New "Health Care For America Now" Coalition May Reflect Divisions in the Movement for Universal Healthcare

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

HCAN is right that we must mobilize a massive citizens' movement for universal healthcare. Where they're mistaken is in trying for a compromise that will never work.

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"Pro-Business" Isn't Always What You Think -- Take Health Reform, For Example

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

Roll over, Newt Gingrich, and tell Ayn Rand the news: Sometimes capitalism can be improved when government and free enterprise work as partners. Entrepreneurs are understanding that.

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What Americans Want: National Health Insurance

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

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Sarah van Gelder

It doesn't have to be this way. A video of a woman dying in a Brooklyn hospital waiting room after nearly 24 hours waiting for treatment is just one m...

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Peaceful Revolution: McCain a Clear and Present Danger to Families

Robert Drago and Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Robert Drago and Arlene Holt Baker

McCain's voting record on family issues speaks clearly and in a single voice: he does not value family in any meaningful sense of the word.

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Blame Game vs. Root Cause Analysis

Deane Waldman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

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Deane Waldman

No one controls or even "is responsible" for the failing healthcare system, and it's not fixed by punishing or changing the people. It's fixed by changing the processes within the system.

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Scum of the earth - NOT!

Deane Waldman | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home

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Deane Waldman

We have had this talk before but apparently lots of you missed class that day. If you review the post "The Future of Healthcare" as well as others pri...

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It Doesn't Have To Be Like This

Beth Broderick | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Beth Broderick

All of us have stories about desperately ill friends and family who have faced the cold cruel reality of being denied treatment by an indifferent insurer. We must all make our voices heard.

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Private Insurers' Goals: Good Targets or Cynical PR?

John Geyman | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

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John Geyman

The gap between the rhetorical goal of low cost and price gouging is easy to understand: most insurers are investor owned and put their shareholders first.

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Ready or Not, Big Change is Coming: The Impending Death Of Private Health Insurance

John Geyman | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

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John Geyman

Most of us have by now heard many indictments of private health insurance. What's new and may be surprising to many people is this: despite its size and political power, it is a dying industry.

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Want Balance? Be the Boss

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living

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Laura Vanderkam

Many women who truly want to focus on nurturing their families, and making the most of their careers realize that they're better off going it alone.

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Here Comes The Sun

Robert Silvers | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

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Robert Silvers

The Democratic primary was bruising. The good news is that it's over and that there are genuine ideological differences for McCain and Obama to battle over. Even better is that on the issues, Obama will win.

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A Good Case for Universal Healthcare

Bryan Young | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

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Bryan Young

It's sad and disgusting to me that that I considered cost when my only thought should have been getting my son immediately to the hospital. Within a month, my son and I had accumulated $40,000 in medical bills.

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Guns N' Robes: A Canadian Perspective

Bruce Kluger | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Bruce Kluger

I've always liked Canada. Its health care system apparently works; its comedians are consistently a hoot; and the gentle behemoth just upstairs always manages to keep a cool head in a hot world.

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What are "Appropriate Limits" in Healthcare?

Deane Waldman | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living

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Deane Waldman

There are no generally accepted limits on or in healthcare. Should there be? If so, what are they and who decides?

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Not Just Us

Mike Fishman and George Gresham | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

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Mike Fishman and George Gresham

Over the next three days, nearly 2,000 delegates from Unions across North America will meet to elect leaders, debate on current issues and set the agenda for our union for the next four years.

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How To Die Happy

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living

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Verena von Pfetten

We were given some bad, sad, and shocking news yesterday. It was announced that Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Terminal ...

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Health Care As the New Terrorist to Fear

David Sirota | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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David Sirota

My situation is emblematic of a health care system that is both immoral and broken. Throwing people off their health insurance with no warning is sick and wrong.

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Slow Medicine: How Do We Keep Personal Choice from Becoming Impersonal Policy?

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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Karen Stabiner

As described, slow medicine sounds like a great idea, buoyed by statistics. But will doctors urge me to forgo treatment because it's best for me, or because it's best for the bottom line?

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Hillary's Fake Populist Proposals Would Pad Bottom Lines of Oil, Defense and Insurance Companies

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Hillary's actual policy proposals are more likely to pad corporate bottom lines than better the lives of those at whom she lobs her populist campaign rhetoric.

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"What Kind Of A Nation Are We?" -- Congress Must Make Access to Care a Top Priority

Rep. Steve Kagen | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Steve Kagen

I've refused to accept the health care benefits offered to me until everyone I represent has the same offer made to them.

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Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...

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No Patient Left Behind

Deane Waldman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home

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Deane Waldman

"Universal health care" doesn't mean to you what it means to them. To Presidential hopefuls and self-styled expert pundits, it means universal health ...

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The True McCain Health Plan: Wealth Transfer From Voters to Corporations

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

The McCain health plan is pro-free-market when it benefits his party's backers, and anti-free-market when necessary to provide the bill with enough political cover to be palatable.

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A Challenge To John McCain: Buy Your Own Health Insurance

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I challenge McCain to be the first to do what he is asking all Americans to do: give up his employer-based health care, and purchase his own health insurance on the open market.

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